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Sylvania’s new smart bulb connects to Apple’s HomeKit without a hub | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | Roughly a week from now we’re going to be drowning in connected home product launches. It seems fairly likely that it’ll be the major story of this year’s CES, with smart home plays from Google, Apple and Amazon duking it out in the middle. Sylvania wisely is getting ahead of the fray, announcing its own offering a ful... |
How startups outside the Bay Area can fundraise in a big way | Todd Olson | 2,016 | 12 | 27 |
Raising venture capital is tough for any startup. But it can be a little more difficult when you’re located outside of Silicon Valley. More difficult, but definitely not impossible. My software company is based in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, and we just completed a $20 million Series B round led by Spark Capi... |
Amazon sold nine times as many Amazon Echo devices this holiday | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | Guess what – Amazon sold . Nine times as many as last year, according to its count. Of course, the company’s never been inclined to give specific numbers when it comes to this sort of thing, only revealing in a press release this morning that it moved “millions” worldwide. There were some telltale signs over the past ... |
The top 10 TechCrunch news videos of 2016 | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | From robots and explosions to self-tying shoes, here’s a rundown of the most-buzzed-about TechCrunch news videos of 2016:
An obvious, but not necessarily expected, from Apple this fall, Airpods have a lot going for them. Several TC staffers have them out and have good things to say. In fact, Editor-in-Chief, , lis... |
Hey, Alexa, are things going to get weird? | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | They say that news is what happens to a writer on his way to the bathroom and I’ve recently discovered something fascinating. Alexa – and, to a degree, Siri and Google’s OK Google solution – have become indispensable additions to our home. The kids tell Alexa to turn on the lights and start Netflix. We ask her how to s... |
Fitbit gets another holiday bump and much-needed breathing room | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | The holidays have come and gone and — as usual — Fitbit got a bit of a lifeline. Once again, everyone is buying Fitbits for gifts. We won’t know how many, but if you just take a quick look at the download charts, Fitbit hit the top of the App Store (even in the presence of the gargantuan promotions of Super Mario Run... |
The Apple Watch rolls out a new challenge for the New Year | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | Making excuses for breaking New Year’s resolutions used to be a hell of a lot simpler. Now that we’ve got social media for every life choice and are wearing our fitness levels on our wrists, there’s really no reason not to keep up. Which isn’t to say, of course, that we all couldn’t use an extra jolt. Back in November,... |
Cujo adds parental controls to its home firewall device | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | Cujo certainly felt like the right product at the right time when the smart firewall’s creators took to the Disrupt stage to debut the device back in May. Since its debut, IoT attacks have grown in prominence as users add more and more failure points to their home security ecosystem one connected device at a time. Sinc... |
Samsung’s CES C-Lab startups are focused on skincare and kids | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | Samsung’s C-Lab experiments are rarely earth-shattering, but they’re usually fairly interesting. Since last year, the electronics giant has used the Creative Lab as a way to foster innovation within its walls, including everything from a wearable 360-degree camera to smart belt with the unfortunate but rhymey name Welt... |
LG is bringing a little floating speaker to CES | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | LG’s apparently . The company has already announced a number of the devices it plans to debut at the show, including a bunch of smartphones and monitors. Maybe it’s still got enough up its sleeve to present some legit excitement – then again, maybe it’s holding back the big phone announcements for Mobile World Congres... |
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and 18 others commit $1 billion to new cleantech fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 11 | Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Vinod Khosla, Jack Ma, John Doerr and 15 other high-profile investors have formed a new venture firm, , that will pour at least $1 billion into cleantech companies over the next 20 years. The firm’s goal, according to its own website, will be: “to provide everyone in the world with access to re... |
WTF is daily fantasy sports? | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 12 | 11 | or been to a professional sports game in the past year you’ve no doubt seen advertisements for daily fantasy sports companies like DraftKings and FanDuel. In just a few years the industry has become the hottest thing in the sports world probably since cable TV. And with the of the two companies, it’s pretty clear th... |
How blockchain can create the world’s biggest supercomputer | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 12 | 27 |
As our desktop computers, laptops, mobile devices, etc. stand idly by for a huge portion of the day, . Large IoT ecosystems, machine learning and deep learning algorithms and other sophisticated solutions being deployed in every domain and industry are raising the demand for stronger cloud servers and more bandwidth... |
Honda invests in Southeast Asia-based Uber rival Grab | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 11 | Southeast Asia’s Grab, a ridesharing rival to Uber, has welcomed a new backer after Honda announced a strategic, undisclosed investment in the company today. at a valuation of $3 billion in September, yet still it is adding more backers. This deal is an extension of that huge Series F round, and it is the second of it... |
The Honest Company’s not terrible but not very good 2016 | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 11 | has become a beloved brand in many homes in its five-year history. But the consumer products business has also taken its lumps in 2016. It’s currently fighting brought against it by consumers who say they were misled by the company’s labeling of various products, including its laundry detergent and sunscreen. Relate... |
Protecting America’s critical infrastructure must remain a priority | Charles Harrington | 2,016 | 12 | 11 |
The months leading up to Election Day exposed major vulnerabilities we face in today s increasingly digital world. It s now more clear than ever that America s dependence on technology and web-based communication has forever changed the way government functions at every level. But it s not only our country s highly s... |
Buying stolen data | Danny Rogers | 2,016 | 12 | 11 |
Think about your most prized possession. Imagine it in your mind’s eye. Maybe it’s a family heirloom, or something a close friend gave you, or something you worked hard to afford. Now imagine it gets stolen. Now suppose I’m your next-door neighbor, and I want to know if I’m in danger of being robbed, too. Should I go... |
Gillmor Gang: Reality Bites | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 12 | 11 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, December 10, 2016. Augmented reality meets the Beatles, Twitter-in-chief, Netflix does downloads, Snap go the Glasses, and Apple floats a two week window. What, no Mitt Romney? @stevegillmor, @scobleiz... |
Uber swaps car icons for Star Wars ships with Rogue One promo | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 11 | Uber and Disney are giving Star Wars fans a bit more incentive to hail a ride to the premiere of with a new promotion that begins rolling out Sunday and should be available in the Uber app in hundreds of cities by Monday. The in-app features, which are available on an opt-in basis (so die-hard Trekkers don’t have to ... |
Death to JIRA | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 12 | 11 | I have long held that Atlassian’s ubiquitous JIRA bug-tracker / feature-planner serves a valuable purpose in the software biz: it gives project teams a common enemy to bond together against. Alas, it’s not worth it. JIRA’s design is fundamentally antithetical to good software development, if it is used for anything mor... |
Few startups IPOed this year, but the ones that did soared | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | But next year is looking brighter, according to industry experts. There is a sizable list of companies in the pipeline and they are ready to go public as long as the stock market remains stable. (Big caveat: Trump’s unpredictable policies could potentially bring about volatility). “If you have a stand-out product and t... |
2016 Africa roundup: drone delivery, VC, unicorns, exits and Zuck | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | year for African tech. The continent’s IT scene attracted major investment, produced its first $1 billion startup, launched a national drone delivery program, and drew one of Silicon Valley’s biggest icons to tour its innovation hubs. This from a region that only a decade ago generated almost no . That certainly wasn... |
Samsung’s new curved monitor coming to CES is somewhat tailored for gamers | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | Right before the New Year begins — and with it, CES — . Take Samsung for example, with its new CH711 quantum dot curved monitor. The CH711 comes in two sizes: 27 or 31.5-inch displays, both with 2560 x 1440 (WQHD) resolution. Samsung is touting the deep and distinct 1800R curvature of the screen, a 178-degree viewing a... |
How fast is fast charging? | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | EVgo announced this month that it has broken ground on what will be the first public DC fast charging station, capable of up to 350 kw, in California — more powerful even than current charging champs Tesla Superchargers. The EVgo station will be ready to charge up near the World’s Tallest Thermometer (yup) in Baker, Ca... |
Facebook stalls in lawsuit alleging its facial recognition tech violates Illinois law | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | An Illinois law is proving a thorn in Facebook’s side as a class action lawsuit, alleging mishandling of biometric information, moves toward trial. The latest developments in the case have the social network objecting against releasing or even admitting the existence of all manner of data, but the plaintiffs aren’t tak... |
2016 and the year ahead | John Graham-Cumming | 2,016 | 12 | 29 |
This past year was a big one for internet attacks, encryption, blackouts, speed and IoT, and 2017 is positioned to bring even more headlines for each of these. As Cloudflare prepares for the coming year, we made some predictions about what’s next for the future of the internet. But first, let’s review what we saw as ... |
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams are getting married | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and tennis superstar Serena Williams are engaged! Williams announced the engagement today on none other than : I came home
A little late
Someone had a bag packed for me
And a carriage awaited
Destination: Rome
To escort me to my very own “charming”
Back to where our stars first c... |
Jawbone fires back after Fitbit ends patent case | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | Fitbit celebrated the holiday this year by filed against fellow fitness wearable manufacturer Jawbone. Even so, the legal war being waged between the two sides appears to be a long way from over. In fact, Jawbone has issued its own filing this week that, naturally, accepts Fitbit’s motion to terminate the patent suit... |
These are the 5 videos vying for Best Startup Video at the 10th Annual Crunchies | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | The is right around the corner, and this year’s event will be bigger and better than ever. As a part of that, we’re including a brand new category: Best Startup Video! You might have the coolest technology, service, or gadget in the world, but without a fun video to show it off, does it really count? Pics or it didn’... |
Coca-Cola closes Founders startup incubator | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | After opening to much fanfare three years ago, Coca-Cola is shutting down The Founders program, in Innovation Leader. Under this program, the company nurtured young startups, hoping to siphon some of that entrepreneurial energy and pass it along to the big lumbering corporation. Over the last several years, companies... |
Obama announces sanctions for Russian election hacking | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | The Obama administration announced today that it will impose sanctions on Russian intelligence services and officials in response to the hacks of American political institutions during the election season. The sanctions cover nine individuals and organizations in Russia, and will prevent four officials from Russia’s Ma... |
SoftBank lets Trump brag about creating jobs (he didn’t) so that it can buy T-Mobile | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | Yes, Trump is talking about the same that has nothing to do with him. In a convoluted turn of self promotion, the President-elect just revisited his not-so-humblebrag from earlier this month, falsely taking credit for , a joint $100 billion plan between SoftBank and Saudi Arabia to invest in emerging technologies. ... |
In light of discrimination concerns, Uber and Lyft defend their policies to show rider names and photos | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | Uber and Lyft have responded to regarding potential racial discrimination against passengers. Last month, Franken wondered why it’s necessary to include names and photos of passengers requesting rides, and what steps both companies can take to dissuade drivers from canceling rides on people with “black-sounding” name... |
Duolingo gets social | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | , the popular language learning app, has long made learning a new language accessible to anybody with a computer or smartphone. Unlike being in a traditional class environment, though, using Duolingo was always a rather lonely experience. The company, whose app has now been used by over 150 million people, realized as ... |
NFL games are now live streaming on China’s Sina Weibo network | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | The NFL is hoping to expand its presence in China with a new deal that gives social media platform, Sina Weibo – often called China’s Twitter – the rights to live stream select games on its network, including the Super Bowl. The deal marks the first time a sports league will live stream games on the service, the NFL s... |
The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella is still looking good on Wall Street | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | Almost three years ago, Microsoft named Satya Nadella as its CEO. Since then, Microsoft has reversed its fortunes and returned to being a growth stock after stagnating for nearly a decade — and 2016 was not an exception to that. Indeed, as Microsoft continued its transition to cloud-based services and adopting multiple... |
How viral open-source startups can build themselves into enterprise-IT powerhouses | Dharmesh Thakker | 2,016 | 12 | 29 |
In the last several years, hordes of new enterprise-IT upstarts have popped up in Silicon Valley, with some drawing lofty valuations from investors. They’re driven by new, more-advanced technologies in areas such as databases, software development, networking and cloud computing. And many are taking aim at old-school... |
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Here and Mobileye team up on self-driving mapping tech | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | More companies working on autonomous driving have decided to work together to pursue their goals; Nokia mapping spin-out Here is working with Mobileye, the company that creates computer vision chips, cameras and other tech to support self-driving development on mapping service collaboration. The companies on Thursday... |
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iPhone 7 was a top holiday gift, but Apple Watch is fading | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 29 | More iPhone 7 devices were unwrapped over the 2016 holidays compared with Google Pixel smartphones, according to new data released by analytics service Mixpanel. Specifically, in the first few days after Christmas, the number of unique iPhone 7’s increased by 12.7 percent, compared with an 8.5 percent increase for Goog... |
Weekly Roundup: Trump meets with tech leaders, Yahoo suffers another massive hack | TechCrunch | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | This week, one could play Super Mario Run on iOS in a self-driving Uber if you lived in San Francisco. You could have also broadcast it live on Instagram or Snapchat to a group for the first time. These are the top stories in tech from this week, all in one place. President-elect Donald Trump this week, including Eri... |
Tesla introduces fee for lazy owners who leave their cars at Supercharger stations | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | There’s nothing like driving your nearly-empty Tesla up to a Supercharger station for a top-up and finding every spot taken by other cars — probably all charged up and ready to go. Where are their drivers? How dare they? Tesla shares your anger and will soothe it by giving those drivers a different kind of charge. You ... |
Google Maps now notes if a location is wheelchair accessible | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | “Can I get in the building?” It might not be a question you find yourself asking regularly — but for the 3 million+ wheelchair users in the U.S., it’s a question that has to be considered. And starting now, it’s one that Google Maps is trying to help answer. “Wheelchair accessible entrance” will now be noted in a locat... |
Airbnb authorizes $153 million more funding | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | Airbnb does not have a comment on the filing. |
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Uber continues self-driving vehicle testing in SF in defiance of DMV | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | Uber won’t stop operating self-driving vehicles in San Francisco, despite from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to do just that. The DMV says Uber needs a permit to test its autonomous vehicles, but Uber argues that its vehicles aren’t autonomous at all and therefore it doesn’t need a permit. “We respectfu... |
TechCrunch’s 2016 Gift Guide | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | null |
The relevance of media-streaming startups | Alice Williams | 2,016 | 12 | 16 |
With 86 million users across multiple countries and roughly , Netflix is the shining star of media-streaming startups. But it wasn’t always such a powerhouse. In the early days of Netflix, video rental companies like Blockbuster were the established opposition. Old media and distribution channels kept a watchful eye... |
Motorola’s hackathon-winning Moto Mods include a gamepad and skin-care monitor | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | You’ve got to hand it to Motorola, the smartphone maker does appear committed to its nascent modular smartphone offering. The company launched the Moto Z back in July, alongside four magnetic backings — a projector, a set of JBL speakers, a battery pack and protective casing. Since then, the company has launched a Hass... |
‘Rogue One’ transports viewers to a bigger Star Wars universe | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | For months, I insisted that I wasn’t going to see . I was kind of a whiner about it: Yes, I did see and yes, I mostly liked it, but I kept telling friends that I didn’t need to buy a ticket to a new movie every year for the rest of my life. I repeated that speech right up until I found out that had overlooked his... |
Trivago closes up 8% in public debut | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | Schromgens says about a quarter of their business is now in America. He explained that this focus on the U.S. market is part of the reason they chose to list on the Nasdaq. It is a very competitive landscape with Kayak, Priceline and countless others looking to be the preferred site for travelers searching for hotels. ... |
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | We might finally get to stop asking, “Wait, what’s your Skype name?” thanks to a test of new Facebook group audio calling on desktop. Facebook launched app in April, and now it’s working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office. It could become a useful alternative to traditional conference calls by... |
Vine won’t be removed from the app stores, will instead relaunch as “Vine Camera” | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | In October, Twitter announced it was shutting down Vine, its app that let users create and share 6-second looping videos. Today, the company says it won’t from the app store as it but will rather transition to a new, low-maintenance app called Vine Camera. From this new app, you’ll still be able to record Vine vide... |
Managed By Q lands $30 million in Series C funding | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | , a service that automates office management, has raised $30 million in Series C funding, according to . Managed By Q started off as a NY-based platform that let office administrators more efficiently deal with the tedious housekeeping of an office, from cleanings to supplies to IT to handy work, all from the web. Fro... |
If only Huawei’s handsome, high-tech Honor Magic phone was coming to the US | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | Lucky China, always getting the good stuff. First pandas, and now the . This curvy beauty is packed with interesting tech, from a dual-camera system on the back to an eye-tracking sensor from Tobii on the front — and a whole lot of custom software in between. The display underneath that lovely smooth glass is a 5-inch... |
Obama defends White House handling of Russian hacking | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | In his final press conference of the year, President Barack Obama addressed that hackers, associated with the Russian government, tampered with the U.S. election in order to sway the victory to Donald Trump. He defended the White House’s handling of the situation. “When I look back at how we handled it, i think we ha... |
The Everlast Notebook is filled with smart, scannable pages that are also reusable | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | You’ve probably seen a few of these smart paper or smart pen things over the years — write in this special notebook and it gets saved to an app, that sort of thing. A new entrant to this niche space is , which obviates the necessity of restocking proprietary paper in that its pages can be wiped clean with a damp towel... |
Pinterest has lowered its hiring goals for women in engineering roles | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | Pinterest found that the 30% hiring rate it set for women in engineering roles was doing too much, so it’s lowering its 2017 goal to 25%, . “We still aspire to 30%—but realize it’s likely going to take more than 12 months to get there,” Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann wrote on the company’s blog. Over the past year, Pint... |
What the coming educational VR revolution teaches us about the tech’s future | Pete Sena | 2,016 | 12 | 16 |
Imagine the following scenario: A fifth-grade science class has just begun and the teacher makes a surprise announcement — today the students will be dissecting a frog. I’m sure you remember dissecting a frog as a kid — the sour-pickle odor of formaldehyde, the sharp scalpels slicing into rubbery skin. You don’t have... |
Google brings its upgraded keyboard app Gboard to Android | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 16 | Google today officially that it’s rebranding its Google Keyboard application for Android users to “ ,” the name sported by its newer keyboard app that sports a fully integrated Google Search engine, emoji and GIF search, and more. The keyboard’s Android launch had been spotted earlier this week by a of media and ... |
IoT redux… this time, it’s personal | Jim Hunter | 2,016 | 12 | 28 |
As we advance toward 2017, a quick analysis of our connected landscape indicates that the IoT is taking a short break from the internet and is now letting take a shot at it. All joking aside, the process of rapidly restructuring our world via technology — and functioning in the flux — has become our new normal. M... |
AppDynamics posts long-awaited IPO filing | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Despite a competitive landscape, which includes New Relic and Dynatrace, AppDynamics has shown strong revenue growth over the past year. For the nine months ending in October, revenue came in at $158.4 million, compared to $102.8 million in the same period during the year prior, driven by strong growth in subscriptions... |
FDA issues new security guidelines so that your pacemaker won’t get hacked | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | This week, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a set of recommendations for securing medical devices that could jeopardize the safety and privacy of their users. The report, titled “ ,” focuses on security throughout the lifecycle of a device, emphasizing that robust cybersecurity is an ongoing process that requ... |
TechCrunch’s top 10 hardware startup videos of 2016 | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Go-karts, toy robots, laser tag and more, here’s a rundown of the most-watched hardware startup videos in 2016:
Small enough to fit into the palm of your hand, this wireless device makes it easy to print documents or photos on the go. The printer rolls back and forth on any paper giving you a full print in about a min... |
Amazon patents show flying warehouses that send delivery drones to your door | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | We’ve known about Amazon’s since 2013. But from Amazon, by CB Insights’ Zoe Leavitt, reveal more details about how the e-commerce titan could make drone deliveries work at scale, namely through “airborne fulfillment centers.” Yes, that’s a warehouse in a zeppelin. The airborne fulfillment centers, or AFCs, would... |
Twitter introduces 360-degree video live streaming | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Twitter is taking another step into getting into live video by introducing 360-degree live streams through Periscope. Anyone on Twitter and Periscope can watch 360-degree live video, though currently only select partners can go live in 360 via Periscope, . While it’s only available for a limited number of partners for ... |
The price of bitcoin is creeping back toward its 3-year high of $1,000 | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Does it feel like the only time you hear about Bitcoin is when the price is either abruptly soaring or sinking? Us too! This time it’s soaring. Bitcoin is up about 30% over the last month, and about 50% over the last 3 months. The current price is hovering . The last time it traded this close to $1,000 was in January ... |
Echo owns the holiday and heads to court: It’s The Daily Crunch | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Echo sold a lot – but Amazon isn’t telling exactly how many, in typical Amazon style. That mystery and more in The Daily Crunch for December 28, 2016. And if your Autopilot saves you, how do you say thanks? Did you get an Echo under the tree? A lot of people did, apparently – 9x as many as last year. But that could be ... |
Four reasons you shouldn’t launch your crowdfunding campaign at CES | Jackson Wightman | 2,016 | 12 | 28 |
It’s the Super Bowl for nerds — a place where the future is unveiled alongside a pile of the most ill-conceived, useless crap humans can dream up. We’re talking about the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which now looms on the not so distant horizon of everyone who has anything to do with consumer-facing technology. ... |
Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | The direction you look could one day control your VR or mobile experience thanks to Facebook and Oculus’ latest buy, . Oculus confirms to me that this is an official acquisition. The startup has developed a $99 eye tracking device developer kits for computers, and software that can bring and potentially virtual reali... |
Facebook & Google dominate the list of 2016’s top apps | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Mobile applications from Facebook and Google dominated the new list of the year’s top apps released today by Nielsen. Not surprisingly, Facebook again grabbed the number one spot on the list, with more than 146 million average unique users per month, and 14 percent growth over last year. In fact, Facebook scored severa... |
Amazon tries to recreate Prime Day magic with the first-ever Digital Day sales event | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Amazon is known for creating its own, exclusive sales holidays and events to boost its bottom line, as it has done with – a day of sales which even tops and , at times. Now, it’s trying to recreate that magic with the debut of a year-end blowout sale it’s calling “ .” As the name implies, the new sales holiday will... |
Samsung is bringing an Amazon Echo-compatible robot vacuum to CES | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Samsung surely (hopefully) has bigger and better things up its sleeve for CES, coming off a year that was, at best, pretty damn rocky for the electronics giant. In the meantime, the company’s looking to build up a little hype ahead of the event by announcing a few things before next week’s great Vegas melee. Its latest... |
Watch Tesla’s Autopilot system help avoid a crash with superhuman sight | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Finally the right one. — Hans Noordsij (@HansNoordsij) Tesla is fond of talking about the safety potential of its Autopilot and upcoming autonomous driving technologies, but it’s rare that we get the chance to see them in action potentially saving lives. That’s the case with this video of Tesla’s Autopilot 8.0 softw... |
Byte Foods raises $5.5 million for smart vending machines that serve local fare | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Apple juniper kombucha or a BBQ chopped salad may soon replace the can of soda and bag of chips in a vending machine at your office. A San Rafael-based startup called has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to popularize its smart vending machines and delivery service stocking them with nutritious food and drinks fro... |
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Ford’s newest self-driving test cars have more compute power and better vision | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | Ford has developed a new generation of autonomous development vehicle, a hybrid Fusion that uses the same essential platform as its current vehicles, but with a big upgrade to processing power through new on-board computing hardware, as well as improved LiDAR sensors, which deliver a better field of view and improved o... |
Hulu is getting over 50 Disney movies thanks to new licensing deal | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | In its continuing battle with Netflix, Hulu this week a new licensing deal with Disney which sees Hulu gaining the exclusive rights to stream a sizable collection of Disney movies via its subscription service. In total, over 50 titles will become available on Hulu in the months ahead, including “The Nightmare Before ... |
Volkswagen purchases PayByPhone for parking | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | PayByPhone, the app that lets you pay for parking (and parking tickets) with a smartphone, has been acquired by Financial Services. PayByPhone is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and operates in Canada, the US, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Australia. In 2016, company processed $250 million in parking ... |
LG’s headset that doubles as a wearable speaker is peak CES before CES | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | LG will be bringing a collar-like wearable wireless speaker to CES, which also includes in-ear buds for when you don’t feel like being a complete jerk. The connects to your phone via Bluetooth, and contains “wearable speakers capable of delivering 3D surround sound” when the attached earbuds are safely ensconced withi... |
Debunking cancellation rumors, Niantic says Pokemon GO for Apple Watch is still “coming soon” | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 12 | 17 | When Niantic first showed a Pokemon Go app for Apple Watch back in September, the only sort of launch date the company would give was by “ .” As December 31st quickly approaches, PoGo fans are starting to wonder if Niantic will ship things in 2016 after all. With wondering and doubt comes ample opportunity for rumors t... |
5G promises to transform the world again | Tom Goodwin | 2,016 | 12 | 28 | |
The last frontier of consumerizing travel lives in the workplace | Matt Heiman | 2,016 | 12 | 17 |
According to a , 74 percent of leisure travelers relied on the internet for travel planning. That’s not surprising; it’s generally understood that most consumers make travel plans online. But that same study found that 77 percent of business travelers also started their journey online. Similarly, 78 percent of busin... |
HP’s OMEN X is a powerful and mostly satisfying gaming cube | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 12 | 17 | A Recently the latter has been doing a great job of appealing to different user needs with their Spectre line, from premium ultrabooks, to the VR-ready desktop replacement OMEN 17 laptop . To better cater to hardcore gamers, HP teamed up with Maingear, a custom PC builder that’s well-respected in the gaming community.... |
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Tech can reshape the U.S. Peace Corps and bridge political divides | Brian Forde | 2,016 | 12 | 17 |
, President-elect Trump met with some of the top leaders of American tech companies. Some of these leaders are trying to find common ground after being on the receiving end of some of his sharp-worded tweets. Like many of my friends in the tech community, I’m faced with the reality of a Trump presidency and searching... |
Silicon Valley is a state of mind | Manoel Lemos | 2,016 | 12 | 17 |
“Silicon Valley is a state of mind,” said Ambassador Pedro Borio, Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco, during a recent address at the annual at the Googleplex in Mountain View. A career diplomat since 1976, Borio spoke about the significant growth in ties and similarities between Silicon Valley and Brazil ... |
Artificial intelligence finds its way into business through sales | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 12 | 17 | Artificial intelligence (AI) had a coming out party of sorts in 2016. Even though it has been in development for decades, this year, with the perfect combination of cheap computing power and access to increasing amounts of data, it seems AI’s time has come. Its first foray in business has been directed at making salesp... |
California Attorney General gives Uber notice on self-driving cars in San Francisco | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 17 | The California Department of Motor Vehicles sent Uber a notice asking it to terminate its pilot self-driving car service in San Francisco last week, but . Now, the California State Department of Justice has followed up, with an order from the Attorney General’s office that adds some teeth to the DMV’s earlier request.... |
Elon Musk might start a literal “boring company” to tunnel under traffic | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 17 | Multi-CEO and future builder Elon Musk may have been so frustrated by sitting in traffic that he’s going to start yet another company – a boring one. Yes, – as in boring tunnels, using machine diggers to create undercut routes to alleviate surface traffic. Musk tweeted Saturday about being struck by inspiration for t... |
5 unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence | Kristian Hammond | 2,016 | 12 | 10 |
We tend to think of machines, in particular smart machines, as somehow cold, calculating and unbiased. We believe that self-driving cars will have no preference during life or death decisions between the driver and a random pedestrian. We trust that smart systems performing credit assessments will ignore everything e... |
Soccer fans can watch the MLS Cup live in VR tonight | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 12 | 10 | Sure, it’s sometimes tough being a soccer fan in America. For instance, the MLS Cup (the championship game for the major soccer league in America) hasn’t even been broadcast live on an English-language network since 2008! But tonight that changes. Fox is airing the MLS Cup tonight between Toronto FC and the Seattle Sou... |
Software is due for a bundling event | Peter Yared | 2,016 | 12 | 10 |
We are approaching a new phase of enterprise software, where every niche of Software-as-a-Service has been filled and cloud companies are being consolidated into larger companies. Markets have a tendency to cycle from bundling to unbundling, and software is due for a bundling event. The cloud, open APIs, next-generat... |
Delivery Hero acquires Foodpanda as Rocket Internet shuffles online takeout pack once again | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 12 | 10 | Rocket Internet has shuffled the online takeout pack of cards once again. This time the publicly listed German “startup factory” and investor is selling Foodpanda to its much larger rival Delivery Hero, of which it also holds a significant stake — a move that should help fatten up Delivery Hero a little more for a long... |
eSUB Construction Software raises $5 million to help subcontractors track jobs and get paid | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | A San Diego startup called has raised $5 million in a Series A round led by according to President and CEO Wendy Rogers. The company’s cloud-based project management apps help subcontractors track and get compensated for all the work they do on construction jobs. Rogers said, “There’s a saying that subcontractors g... |
Crunch Report | Zuckerberg Gets One Step Closer to Jarvis | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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iPrice raises $4M for its e-commerce aggregator service in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | , an 18-month-old e-commerce aggregation service that’s active in seven countries in Southeast Asia, has closed a $4 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by existing backers Asia Venture Group (AVG) and Venturra Capital, with participation from Gobi Partners, DMP, Econa and Starstrike Ventures. Malays... |
New York City brings smartphone payments to metered parking | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Starting this week, metered parking spots in midtown Manhattan are going mobile with a new system that lets drivers pay via smartphone. The is tied to a car’s license plate number, working along the lines of an EZPass. Drivers enter their parking zone and the amount of time they’re parking and it goes to work deducti... |
Apple’s Tim Cook assures employees that it is committed to the Mac and that ‘great desktops’ are coming | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | One of the memes to come out of the somewhat contentious rollout of the MacBook Pro is that Apple has given up on the desktop Mac. Given the slower upgrade cycle of desktops and how well my Retina 5K iMac is holding up, it took me a while to pay attention to what was going on there — until it had reached a fever pitch.... |
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